SINGAPORE’S BOOMING ECONOMY OFFERS RICH PICKINGS TO INTERNATIONAL COATINGS GROUPS
April 1st, 2011
BY MARK ROWE
SINGAPORE weathered the global economic crisis better than most, and its GDP grew by a staggering 10% in 2010, driven in part by the development of two casino-based resorts. The future also looks bright for the paint industry, with a seemingly endless list of ambitious developments planned for coming years, proposed by the city state's Urban Redevelopment Authority, a government department that makes decisions, down to the last square centimetre, on how Singapore makes use of the limited land available to it.
In 2009, the total production of paints ...
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